Mark Thorpe
CEO
EnviroGold Global
EnviroGold Global employs clean extraction technology to recover valuable metals from electronic waste using environmentally responsible methods, significantly reducing landfill contributions and resource depletion. The company provides a sustainable solution to the escalating issue of electronic waste by efficiently reclaiming precious metals while minimizing ecological impact.
- Clean Technology
- Industrial Automation
- New Materials
Updated 7 months ago
Funding
Raised to date
$2.9MRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Funding rounds are not available yet.
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Problem
The mining industry faces challenges in recovering valuable metals from complex polymetallic ores and mine tailings, leading to significant resource wastage and environmental liabilities due to acid-generating potential and ecological threats. Traditional methods often involve high energy consumption, specialized equipment, and generate further waste, making many projects uneconomical and environmentally unsustainable.
Solution
EnviroGold Global provides a hydrometallurgical technology, the NVRO Process, that enables mining companies to monetize previously unrecoverable metals from mine waste and tailings. The technology employs a weak acid leach process at atmospheric pressure and relatively low temperature, using an exothermic reaction with a short residency time. This process frees metals trapped in pyritic and volcanogenic massive sulfide ores (VMS) and neutralizes the acid-forming potential of waste material, reducing environmental concerns. EnviroGold Global partners with asset owners to deploy this technology, optimized for site-specific geologies, and can finance and install modular, scalable plants for commercial production.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes mining companies seeking to improve resource recovery from complex ores and remediate mine tailings, as well as governments and industries aiming to address environmental and ecological threats associated with mining operations.
Features
- Proprietary NVRO Process using a weak acid leach technology to recover metals from complex ores and tailings
- Operation at atmospheric pressure and low temperature (~85°C) with a quick reaction time (<1 hour)
- Self-sustaining exothermic reaction with an acid recycling circuit to control costs
- Neutralization of acid-forming potential in tailings, reducing environmental liabilities
- Modular and scalable plant design for site-specific optimization
- Portfolio of 22 patents and designs protecting the technology
- Simulation of the NVRO Process using IDEAS Simulation software for client-specific process optimization